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    Smells Like Teen Spirit to Me

    Posted Tuesday, February 17, 2009 2:40 PM | By Jessica Grose
    I agree with Hanna that Bristol came off as remarkably unaffected in her Fox interview. But that still doesn't explain why she felt compelled to do this interview in the first place. Why now, since the media lost interest in badgering Bristol months ago? It didn't seem like Bristol was positioning herself as the poster girl for teen screw-ups, or any sort of poster girl at all. The interview read more like an attempt to gain agency over the situation. Bristol was thrust into the spotlight mostly against her will, and I saw this interview as a tacit f-you to her mother. When Bristol told Greta Van Susteren that she neglected to inform Sarah about the interview until the day before, she looked pretty darn pleased with herself. And you know, I can't say I blame her. Being the unwitting centerpiece of a three-ring media circus when you're several months pregnant would make any normal teenager—or even grown woman—pretty resentful.
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